dr_rat posted:

So the ballart courier has an article about it, but when I tried to open it, it just gave me the first sentence and a shitload of ads. Something about police operation to search for weapons. Possibly you'll have more luck
https://www.thecourier.com.au/story/7736686/major-police-operation-in-ballarat-cbd-today/

Laserface posted:

Does anyone know what the gently caress is going on in Ballarat? There is some Hyper Intense cop presence, stopping anyone and everyone on the street with full authority to search persons/bags for anything illegal without a warrant.

my friend lives there and hes shown me some FB screenshots of tradies getting stopped on their way home and getting searched.

what the gently caress the purpose is, is totally missing from all the info on facebook.

DRINK ME posted:

There is a search everyone order in effect for twelve hours, per the declaration on this twit account I follow

https://twitter.com/vicpol_searches/status/1524245424814829568

lih posted:

maybe karen andrews except i still can't really see the federal libs backing a woman for leader

Laserface posted:

Is there anything that justifies this? they're stopping literally anyone with a bag according to my mate. hes just walking around filming everything from a distance in case something gets weird.

quote:

Laura, a child care worker, is asked what her main issue is in the election.

“My key thing is getting rid of Scott Morrison. I don’t know the best way to go about that. I don’t know enough about it,’’ she says.

Laserface posted:

Is there anything that justifies this? they're stopping literally anyone with a bag according to my mate. hes just walking around filming everything from a distance in case something gets weird.

Vicpol posted:

Planned designated areas

Victoria Police may declare an area if the Chief Commissioner (or delegate) is satisfied that:

*there has been more than one act of violence or disorder with a weapon in the past 12 months and there is a likelihood that there will be violence or disorder with a weapon again

*there has been violence or disorder with a weapon at a previous event or celebration, this event is happening again and there is a likelihood that there will be violence or disorder with a weapon at this event again

Notice of this declaration is advertised in the Government Gazette and a daily newspaper at least seven days before the area is designated for searches to occur.

Pleasant Friend posted:

Isn't Angus Taylor too corrupt to be leader if Albo makes an ICAC, he's like at the center of a dozen scandals unless I'm mixing him up for someone else.

DRINK ME posted:

There is a search everyone order in effect for twelve hours, per the declaration on this twit account I follow

https://twitter.com/vicpol_searches/status/1524245424814829568

Anidav posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0MMrmteZfk

Can we all appreciate how desperate and cooked the lnp ad campaign guys are?

Pleasant Friend posted:

Isn't Angus Taylor too corrupt to be leader if Albo makes an ICAC, he's like at the center of a dozen scandals unless I'm mixing him up for someone else.

freebooter posted:

quote:

And then it happens. It’s the moment that occurs in just about every focus group, according to pollsters.

The voters raise the issue of the Mr Morrison’s family holiday while bushfires raged down Australia’s east coast.

Unprompted.

Sally, 25, is sitting in a striped T-shirt in her lounge. She’s still annoyed by the bushfire holiday 18 months after the event.

She lives in the electorate of Werriwa in Sydney’s western suburbs. She’s a carer. But she doesn’t find the Prime Minister very caring.

“Where was he? When there were bushfires? Wasn’t he in Hawaii or something?’’ says Sally.

“Like he just left the country. And that’s not how a leader should be. A leader should be like, ‘my country needs me’. Clearly he just …”

She trails off and shakes her head in disgust as another voter, Amanda, interrupts.

“He just wanted a holiday,’’ she says. She shakes her head too.

“Yeah,’’ says Sally. “I feel like he thinks he’s bigger than us, he’s looking down on the whole country. He feels he’s superior.”

quote:

Today brings the end of Week Five, and confirmation that the Prime Minister has reached the bargaining phase in the crushing 360-degree employee review that this campaign has become.

These moments are never easy to witness. Here's how it happened.

In the at-risk Victorian Liberal electorate of Chisholm, whither the PM had repaired to fiddle with motherboards at a tech factory and wax lyrical about the Member for Chisholm, Gladys Liu, in front of an underwhelmed-looking cohort of lab-coated employees, the PM assumed the position for his daily press conference.

Sky News reporter Andrea Crothers — part of the travelling media pack well accustomed to the PM's fondness for avowing what "Australians know" to be true — slipped in a diabolically simple question.

"Prime Minister, isn't part of your problem that you keep telling them what they know, rather than listening?"

Now, asking Scott Morrison a question is easy. Getting an answer is harder. And more often than not, you get the answer to the question the PM would have liked you to ask, rather than the one you actually did.

And in this case, he started out by explaining that Australians know him for his strength and decisiveness during the pandemic. A classic interview manoeuvre from the "What's my weakness? Oh, I guess it's probably that I'm a workaholic" job interview school.

But having started talking, he somehow couldn't stop.

"I know [that] Australians know I can be a bit of a bulldozer when it comes to issues," he confided.

For a man who loves to be photographed hard-hattedly astride various pieces of heavy machinery, the revelation that to some extent he actually identifies as a vehicle feels… significant.

But it didn't stop there, either.

"As we go into this next period on the other side of the pandemic, I know things that are going to have to change with the way I do things," Mr Morrison continued.

For the entire time he's been in office, Mr Morrison's entire offering has been incumbency. "I'm the Prime Minister," he likes to remind people. As of today, however, he's prepared to be a different kind of guy, if we'll just give him another chance.

Laserface posted:

yeah I cant get around the paywall. tried everything except going around my pi-hole because i cant be arsed.

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

https://twitter.com/bradpsychology/status/1524983273872494593

Anidav posted:

Channel 7 claims that they have built a Super Computer, code named the Mirror of Dreams. They believe after a significant investment it will call election results faster and more accurately than Antony Green.

Anidav posted:

Channel 7 claims that they have built a Super Computer, code named the Mirror of Dreams. They believe after a significant investment it will call election results faster and more accurately than Antony Green.

Anidav posted:

Channel 7 claims that they have built a Super Computer, code named the Mirror of Dreams. They believe after a significant investment it will call election results faster and more accurately than Antony Green.

Anidav posted:

Channel 7 claims that they have built a Super Computer, code named the Mirror of Dreams. They believe after a significant investment it will call election results faster and more accurately than Antony Green.

CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:

So basically 4 interns and Excel spreadsheet?

GoldStandardConure posted:

y'all are loving weebs

Bill Posters posted:

A major police operation will be conducted in Ballarat today, which will see a heavy presence in the Ballarat CBD.

The planned operation will see police from the Public Order Response Team, among others, swarm the streets in a highly-visible street blitz.

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Sergeant Gerard Collihole from Melbourne's Public Order Response Team said people can expect a strong police presence within the Ballarat CBD.

"The area has been declared a designated area for the Control of Weapons Act so members will be approaching people at random within that area explaining to them that there is search provisions that apply until 10pm tonight," he said.

"It's not just about detecting people with weapons, it's about targeting everything that goes on within the declared area as a whole, so other things that may arise during the shifts like shop steals or public disorder incidents, road policing matters and members can attend to all that as well ... it's a holistic thing."

As part of the operation, police will have the powers to stop any person in a public place and search for weapons, without needing a search warrant.

The one-day blitz will run until 10pm on Friday.

The map below shows where the police will have the authority to search anybody.

The blitz will focus around the CBD, with the Ballarat train station and Bridge Mall area expected to be among the focal points.

Under the Controlled Weapons Act 1990, members of the police force are authorised to exercise the following powers:

- (a) in a public place in the designated area, without warrant, stop and search for weapons:

(i) any person;

(ii) anything in the possession or control of the person;

(iii) any vehicle with a person in or on the vehicle; and

(iv) anything in or on such vehicle.

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- (b) detain a person or vehicle for so long as is reasonably necessary to conduct a search;

- (c) seize and detain any item the member reasonably suspects is a weapon; and

- (d) request a person who is the subject of a full search to disclose his or her identity, and (e) direct a person to leave the designated area if the police officer reasonably believes the person is wearing the face covering primarily to:

(i) conceal their identity; or

(ii) to protect them from the effects of a crowd control substance; and the person refuses to remove the face covering when requested to do so;

- (f) direct the person to leave the designated area if the police officer reasonably believes the person intends to engage in conduct that would constitute an affray or violent disorder.



Major police operation in Ballarat CBD today

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Acting Senior Sergeant Paul Allen said police use data, including from community interactions, to determine the need for the operation.

"We get a number of community interactions with people, Neighbourhood Policing says that we interact more in the community, we get discussions with local businesses, we get all this feedback and it comes into data," he said.

"This is what its telling us, that people just want more police in this area - so we provide it with the assistance of the public order response.

"Within the first hour they've seized a knife off a person within Ballarat, so that shows straight up very quickly what our problems are - and we're on it immediately."

A missing person was also located through the first hour of the operation.

thatbastardken posted:

https://twitter.com/Mark_Clayton1/status/1524936756746780672

Eediot Jedi posted:

Wow! A knife within the first hour and a missing person! How many pissed off people did they find?

thatbastardken posted:

https://twitter.com/Mark_Clayton1/status/1524936756746780672

BOAT SHOWBOAT posted:

The whole point is they're not a political party

That seat is Liberal held and they're encouraging people to put both Labor and the Greens above the libs in the order they see fit